2/23/08

Governor Sets Up Probe Into Asir Road Accident
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
The Asir governor has set up a committee to probe the accident in which a Saudi Arabian Public Transport Company (SAPTCO) bus carrying 33 people fell into a ...
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It was like a BOMB
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
I was also upset to see my bike damaged but accidents can't be helped.' SCDF personnel removing one of the bodies from the site. ...
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Four die in road accidents
Times of India - India
In another accident at Shamirpet, two students were killed when they hit an RTC bus. According to Shamirpet police, K Mallesh Naik and B Naresh, ...
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Van Driver Charged with Vehicular Homicide in Fatal Minnesota ...
FOX 9 News - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who were killed or injured in this tragic accident.” HOW OLD WERE THE STUDENTS ON THE BUS? ...
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Bomb Explodes on Bus in Sri Lanka, 18 Wounded
eFluxMedia - USA
Since the Sri Lankan government pulled out the ceasefire agreement last month, numerous accidents very similar to this one took place in the troubled island ...
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i know this is old news now, but...
By barb(barb)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsVaVEEhIcm7LrdNzHveocrCLfIgD8UU5F4G0 just remember, although school bus accidents have become increasingly popular, there is no substitute for abortion, which remains 100% effective.
HighJournal - http://writer420.livejournal.com/

It took me a few seconds to understand why Michelle had this post ...
By mycowardice
These are the four schoolchildren killed in the Cottonwood, MN bus accident this week. I was pretty sad. Why did these kids die? Why did Michelle have that on her front page? I had to go read the post to realize what the issue was. ...
Cowardly political musings... - http://mycowardice.wordpress.com

District thoroughly checks bus drivers' backgrounds
How well do you know the person driving your children to and from school each day? How is his/her driving record? Are there any accidents on record or any arrests for driving under the influence (DUI)?
Alexandria Echo Press : Alexandria - http://www.echopress.com

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
By I'm Jennifer(I'm Jennifer)
10:20am: called the help number that was displayed at the platform. the man said no buses were being allowed to travel over the Firth of Forth bridge for fear of accidents due to high winds. we realized traveling to Dornoch by bus ...
Bagpipe Fever - http://murphyjenn.blogspot.com/

Sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent
By RevDrKate(RevDrKate)
This has come home to all of us in this community as we heard the horrible news on Tuesday about the bus accident. There was no way on Tuesday morning to imagine that before the end of the day four young lives would end and countless ...
- http://prairielight.blogspot.com/

Press TV - 25 killed in Saudi bus accident
Traffic accidents are a significant hazard in Saudi Arabia. Driving habits are generally poor, and accidents involving vehicles driven by minors are not ...

Delhi’s Roads- No More a Jaywalker’s Paradise
By The Viewspaper
87179724_32c7dfec98.jpg Delhi’s roads are probably the most notorious in the country. Traffic rules are violated liberally by motorists, and the blue line buses in the city are ambassadors of indiscipline on the road. ...
The Viewspaper - http://theviewspaper.net

Aggression in the Air
By Shantanu Dutta
This aggression need not always translate into crime but often does and the newspapers – especially the city sections reflect it in several ways – be it in the tracking of the number of people killed in blue line buses running over ...
Desicritics Opinion - http://desicritics.org/

"Big Rig Jig" artist lands Sound Transit gig
Seattle Times - United States
Sound Transit is known to push the limits of engineering, by boldly drilling tunnels through wet glacial soil. Now, the agency wants to install ...
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Bombardier Wins NJ Transit Contract
Houston Chronicle - United States
Bombardier's specially designed multilevel commuter rail cars will help NJ Transit expand its passenger rail operations. The new locomotives are based on ...
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Panel favors steel-rail mass transit
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
A government-appointed panel of experts on Friday selected steel rail as the technology for Honolulu's $3.8 billion mass transit system. ...
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How Pawlenty's veto impacts transit
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
Pawlenty is an optional one-quarter percent sales tax for Twin Cities transit. Advocates say the money would supply a long needed, dedicated source of ...
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Raleigh Seeks Options to Fund Buses, Transit
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
Raleigh, NC — City officials are looking at the possibility of using a half-cent local sales tax to help fund mass transit efforts. ...
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York residents discuss Toronto's transit plans
Inside Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
20 at the York Civic Centre on the city's plan to build seven light rail transit lines across Toronto including down Jane Street and across Eglinton Avenue. ...
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Lakeville transit plan gets fresh look
Minnesota This Week Newspapers - Burnsville,MN,USA
by Derrick Williams Tires on the bus that is Lakeville’s transit debate seem to be gaining traction on the topic’s slippery slope. ...
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Survey begins today to shape future Sound Transit investments
Tacoma Daily News - Tacoma,WA,USA
Sound Transit today asked Puget Sound residents to shape the future of mass transit in this region. Postcards will start arriving in people's mailboxes ...
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Kitsap Transit using tax credits for fast-ferry research
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
A resolution to pursue the idea was adopted by the Kitsap Transit board 5 to 0 this week with two members abstaining. With the tax credits Kitsap Transit ...
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Transit system CEO gets 10 percent pay raise
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
SAN DIEGO: The area's lead public transit agency yesterday granted a 10 percent pay raise to Chief Executive Officer Paul Jablonski. ...
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23-Mile Metrolink Extension
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Staff,California...
But the Federal Transit Administration warned the Riverside County Transportation Commission to hold costs to that level or risk losing some $75 million in Federal funding in the future of the project.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Transit Panel Picks Steel Wheel Technology
In a 4-1 vote Friday, a committee of transit experts chose steel wheel on steel rail as the technology for Oahu's mass transit system.
KHON - News - Local - http://www.khon2.com/news/local

Transit system makes changes to bus routes
Great Falls Transit system buses will begin serving the Social Security Administration office building at 2008 23rd St. S., beginning March 1.
greatfallstribune.com - Local News - http://www.greatfallstribune.com

Arizona Police Investigate School Bus Fight Caught on Tape
FOXNews - USA
PHOENIX — Charges may be forthcoming after a fight involving a Higley Unified School District bus driver and three teenagers that was captured on a security ...
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Bus Driver Duct-Tapes Kids' Mouths
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
(WLTX) (AP) Greenwood County deputies say they have charged a bus driver with eight counts of cruelty to children after she admitted she taped their mouths ...
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Stray dog follows Richland school bus to animal shelter
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Richland school bus drivers noticed a brown-and-black dog following buses, as if looking for someone to get off. A transportation supervisor, Anita Bromley, ...
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KC murder suspect arrested on bus
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Kansas City police arrested a murder suspect this morning on a bus that broke down near 64th Street and Interstate 29. Claude A. Gross, 53, is charged with ...
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Bus stand expansion over
Hindu - Chennai,India
TIRUCHI: Work on expansion of Central Bus Stand, taken up by Tiruchi Corporation after acquiring adjoining Railway lands, has been completed. ...
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Bus bomb injures at least 14
The Press Association -
A bomb explosion on a bus has wounded at least 14 people near the Sri Lankan capital. A bigger disaster was averted because a passenger spotted the device ...
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Van driver charged in Minn. school bus crash that killed 4 kids
USA Today - USA
The driver of the van accused of running a stop sign Tuesday and killing four Minnesota children in a school bus was charged today with vehicular homicide ...
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Boy, 9, dies after collapse on school bus
Globe and Mail - Canada
Pupils at a Manitoba school are being offered grief counselling after the death of a nine-year-old boy who collapsed on a school bus. Police say the boy had ...
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Bus tax kept on April ballot
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By JOE LAMBE Kansas City’s bus tax issue will remain on the April 8 ballot, a Jackson County judge determined Friday when he declined to issue an injunction ...
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Woman hit by bus, killed; wet roads caution urged
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
By ROSS ROMANIUK, Sun Media A woman was killed yesterday when hit by a bus while walking in Fort Rouge, prompting police to warn motorists and pedestrians ...
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School Bus Fight - Caught on Tape
A student on a school bus in Gilbert, Arizona gets into an argument with the driver when the driver won't let the student off the bus.
Mixx: News - http://www.mixx.com

Newark bus aide shoved by student's mother
NEWARK - A Newark mother might face a minor misdemeanor charge for shoving a school bus aide into a school bus seat.
zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News - http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com

RTA plans bus service to GCC countries
DUBAI - People travelling from Dubai to the neighbouring emirates would soon enjoy the luxury of state-of-the-art buses. In addition, the RTA is considering to start international bus service connecting the GCC countries.
Khaleej Times : UAE News - http://www.khaleejtimes.com/

Officials: Bus Bomb Wounds at Least 8 Near Sri Lankan Capital
A bomb exploded Saturday inside a passenger bus near Sri Lanka's capital wounding at least eight people, officials said.
Digg / World News / upcoming - http://digg.com/world_news

Amtrak to add bus service
Amtrak plans to add bus service Feb. 29 on a portion of the disrupted Los Angeles to Seattle Coast Starlight route, which runs through the mid-valley with stops in Albany. Train travel was suspended between Los Angeles and Seattle on ...
News/local from www.democratherald.com - http://www.democratherald.com/

Mom accused of shoving aide on bus
The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA
Jim Jasper said he knew of a couple of cases when the woman's son had missed the bus. "I only was aware of a couple of incidents of the mother calling in ...
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Police fight crime with the help of a bus ticket
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The agency then communicates directly with the police to report incidents on behalf of victims and offers support and advice to the victim. ...
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Investigation into background of driver of van continues
Marshall Independent - Marshall,MN,USA
Counts told reporters that it is not uncommon for ICE to respond to incidents of identity theft, and suggested cases such as the bus crash should keep ...
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That's it for today. You guys gotta walk
FOX11AZ.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
CORSICANA, Texas (AP) -- A driver who apparently took her work rules very seriously abandoned a bus full of former prisoners along a highway because her ...
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12:48 AM, I-95 N, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 27 MPH at: I-95 N; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

Bus driver abandons former prisoners on roadside
By little ineb(Jason Cooper)
Just before 7 pm, a second bus arrived with three drivers — including the one who had abandoned her passengers in the first place, Lawhon said. Greyhound spokesman Dustin Clark said company officials were investigating the incident. ...
MW Daily - http://www.mwdaily.net/

SC school-bus incidents | Driving a busload of stress
Duct tape is used to seal the mouths of unruly children on a Ware Shoals school bus. Two 16-year-old boys sexually assault a 14-year-old girl on a Berkeley County school bus after paying the driver $10 to look the other way. ...
TheState.com: Local / Metro - http://TheState.com/local/index.xml

IPS releases video of school bus incident - Topix
IPS releases video of school bus incident. Dreyer & Reinbold BMW VW Great Deals at Dreyer & Reinbold Greenwood on New and Pre-Owned Certified BMW, Infiniti, ...

Clinton devastated after police death
MSNBC - USA
It's also worth noting that at least two officers have died in accidents while working in motorcades for President Bush in the last few years. ...
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25 people killed in Saudi bus crash
NEWS.com.au - Australia
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has one of the world's highest rates of traffic accidents, according to its transport ministry. Road deaths have exceeded 35000 over ...
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Two injured in separate accidents
Ludhiana Newsline - Ludhiana,India
Ludhiana, February 22 One person was seriously injured after being hit by a speeding bus near the traffic lights at Bhai Wala Chowk on Friday afternoon. ...
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Bus crash suspect identified as illegal
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
While no one ? in or out of government ? tracks traffic accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last ...
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Bus driver charged in connection with collision
Kawartha Media Group - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
Since the end of January there have been four bus accidents in the Peterborough area. Police say three of those accidents were a result of weather, ...
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Reconstructing Deadly Bus Accident
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
Reconstruction of the deadly bus accident began Wednesday. Because of its magnitude, it could take several days to determine how it all happened. ...
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DV takes steps to make sure buses are empty at the end of runs
PoconoNews.net - Newburgh,New York,USA
At a recent transportation committee meeting, all procedures for possible bus accidents were reviewed. “If an accident occurs, police and EMT’s are to be ...
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Bus Accidents as Random Health Shocks
A new paper by Manoj Mohanan takes this challenge seriously and looks at the effect of health shocks from bus accidents on household’s consumption, and examines what mechanisms households rely on to smooth consumption. ...
- http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/

School Bus Deaths Bring Immigration Policy Home.
By charlieq
Immigration status and driving skills aren't necessarily related, and drivers without licenses are not the only ones who cause traffic accidents. But this case does raise the issue: If we provide jobs to undocumented workers while ...
Across the Great Divide - http://greatdivide.typepad.com/across_the_great_divide/

Decapitated, Chrionics and Red Shore updates:
By spakyle(spakyle)
Two bands that had the unfortunate experience of fatal tour bus/van accidents are recovering nicely. First, Australia's RED SHORE, whose vocalist Damien and merch salesman/van driver sustained fatal injuries on an Australian tour ...
Individual thought patterns - http://journals.aol.com/spakyle/Individualthoughtpatterns/

Snow, ice, drizzle and fog
But clearly there have been slippery spots. There have been many accidents this morning. If schools had opened, and just one of those accidents had involved a school bus, the decision-makers would have been burned at the stake. ...
Weather blog from MarylandWeather.com - http://weblogs.marylandweather.c